The Freeman's Journal, Or, New Hampshire Gazette

SALEM. Sunday evening 9 o'clock.

This afternoon arrived here one Mr. Hatie T from New-York, which place he left this day week, and says that the evening before he came away an express arrived from their army at Princeton, informing there had been a general battle, and that their army was entirely routed, the loss on both sides very great: insomuch that of the 17th British Regiment, only 18 men were left alive; on, but on Sunday morning it was said, they kept the ground, having collected their artillery on an eminence, and there defended themselves. - Lord Howe lay at the point of death, and was not expected to live an hour. General Howe was sent for from the army, and arrived a few days before he came away: and left the army in the Jerseys, under Cornwallis. -- Clinton was gone home, and Cornwallis was soliciting the same favor - Great uneasiness among the Hessian troops - and their General and General Howe quite at variance -- the officers and men taken at Fort Washington, &c, all set at liberty - the officers and men taken in privateers: are still detained. On General Washington's granting the Hessian prisoners their baggage unopened, he permitted 14 of them to return to the enemy; in consequence of this kind treatment, we just learn that there is a mutiny in Howe's army; and that he had already hung and shot 25 of the mercenary troops, and the mutiny was not quelled when our informant came away.